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Art. Lebedev Studio is a design firm in Russia , founded in 1995 by Artemy Lebedev .

The studio creates industrial and graphic design for commercial entities and does not accept projects from private citizens and political or religious organizations. Its motto is ” Design will save the world. ” As of November 2011, it has five major art directors and over 100 employees. The studio has its headquarters in Moscow , and other offices in Kiev and New York City . [1] [2]

Art. Lebedev Studio is owned by the holding company Art. Lebedev Group (ALG), which owns several other design and advertising companies. [ quote needed ]

History and work

The studio began with graphic design, then expanded to include interfaces , web design , and most recently industrial design. It has an educational center, a publishing house , a media department, and several software teams. In 2011, Russian advertising research company AdMe called them the leading web studio in Russia. [3]

Website

The studio’s official website is available in Russian and English. The Russian version of the site has HTML , XML, XSLT , JavaScript , CSS and other web technologies. The site is typeset as if it were a printed book; for example, punctuation marks and characters which extend to the left (Ф, О, Т, V, т and others others) are rendered several pixels to the left when they are at the beginning of a line. [4]

They designed the Optimus Maximus keyboard , with customizable Organic light-emitting diode displays on every key, [6] and the Just5 Brick mobile phone. [7] They also won a public vote for the best redesign of the Moscow Metromap, in 2013.

See also

Parser , a web scripting language developed by the studio for its web projects and released as free software .